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Monmouth: Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is September 28, 2023 - BBC
A forager has found a mushroom so rare that she will not share its location for fear of it being damaged.

Chloe Newcomb Hodgetts, from Monmouthshire, believes she has found a rare tiered tooth fungus (hericium cirrhatum).
The 41-year-old described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime find".
Mark Steer of the Glamorgan Fungus Group said it was "fairly likely" Chloe's photographs showed a tiered tooth fungus.
He added: "This is a species which seems to be fairly uncommon with only 25 records that I can find for the whole of Wales."
Chloe owns a business where she takes people out on foraging walks and teaches them about the food in nature.
The day of her big find, she was scouting good spots ahead of a mushroom forage in the Wye Valley.
"I walked past this beautiful fallen beach log and I saw two very potent medicinal species, so I was excited about finding them," she said.
"I marked that spot in my mind and thought 'I'll definitely bring my foragers past this'.
"But as I walked away from that log, something in the forest told me 'go back, you've missed something.'"
When she turned around to check the log one more time, she made "the wonderful find".
"I was incredibly surprised, I did a little happy dance and probably let out a couple of 'oh my Gods' to myself," she added.
"I knew right away that this was a special find and I just sat and admired it for a few seconds because it's very likely that I will never come across that again in my lifetime."
After taking pictures, Chloe sought advice for what to do next.
"It is edible, it's said to taste like crab or lobster, but I was asked by mycology experts to please leave it where it is, which is why I haven't given away the location.
"Anybody keen on mushrooms would flock straight there to have a look and it would get damaged. Because it's so rare, it's important that it's left in its natural habitat."
Prof Lynne Boddy from Cardiff University agreed that the mushroom was "probably" hericium cirrhatum, adding that it was "quite rare in the UK".
She also encouraged anyone who found the mushroom to not pick it.
* See video: The Tiered Tooth Fungus (Hericium cirrhatum). - Youtube
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: veggie] 2
#28485738 - 09/28/23 12:14 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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-------------------- ๐๏ธ ๐ why you are empty. Hunt for the habitat not the mushroom.
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: Icyurmt] 2
#28485798 - 09/28/23 01:24 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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"But as I walked away from that log, something in the forest told me 'go back, you've missed something.'"
Spores and tissue culture, and why did you take your secret to the Press.
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: durian_2008] 5
#28485805 - 09/28/23 01:29 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: Speeker]
#28485865 - 09/28/23 02:45 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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Very cool!
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: veggie] 1
#28486223 - 09/28/23 08:54 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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Clone it!
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: mind.at.large] 1
#28486291 - 09/28/23 10:46 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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Also, pd's avatar.
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: veggie]
#28490015 - 10/02/23 02:04 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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I wonder if it is more or less medicinal than the other Hericium species.
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#28490504 - 10/03/23 12:03 AM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said: I wonder if it is more or less medicinal than the other Hericium species.
Thatโs a good question Alan. Do you know if there are any papers or tests being done on the medicinal potencies of differing Hericium species?
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: mind.at.large]
#28490756 - 10/03/23 08:46 AM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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A similar looking specie is turning up in my Facebook spam. "Nature's Prozac"
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: mind.at.large] 2
#28491254 - 10/03/23 05:21 PM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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mind.at.large said:
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Alan Rockefeller said: I wonder if it is more or less medicinal than the other Hericium species.
Thatโs a good question Alan. Do you know if there are any papers or tests being done on the medicinal potencies of differing Hericium species?
This study looked at polysaccharide production and antimicrobial activity between H. cirrhatum, H. coralloides, and H. erinaceus
Screening of medicinal mushroom strains with antimicrobial activity and polysaccharides production https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tjb-2022-0235/html
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: Icyurmt]
#28491685 - 10/04/23 04:47 AM (3 months, 22 days ago) |
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I have little knowledge of biochemistry, so I was wondering if the 'polysaccharide production' from the study mentioned above has anything to do with hericenones and erinacines?
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: Poison Drink]
#28491710 - 10/04/23 05:26 AM (3 months, 22 days ago) |
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I was also wondering if it would be possible to test the cultivated H. cirrhatum fruitbody for hericenones and erinacines, but my life was (and still is) in a complete mess when it fruited. I didn't have access to the dehydrator and had a whole lot of other stuff to deal with, so sadly I did not keep any dried material. I had a number of H. cirrhatum clones in the mycology fridge, but I had to move it out and all the cultures are now in a somewhat cool basement. Still need to load them back into the fridge and cross my fingers it didn't harm any of the cultures I collected over the years.
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Re: [UK] Mushroom found so rare you can't know where it is [Re: Poison Drink]
#28492060 - 10/04/23 02:00 PM (3 months, 22 days ago) |
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shows empirical formula: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21501201003735556
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Nerve growth factor (NGF)... The degree of activity for hericenones D was almost at the same level as the potent stimulator, epinephrine.
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